Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] up [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the three subjects intensively taught , pupils may make up their timetables with scraps of non-examined , and therefore non-serious , odds and ends . |
| 2 | ‘ Come on then , let's hang up your coat and go from there , ’ Natasha proposed . |
| 3 | Heseltine was anxious to set up a link between Westland and a consortium of European helicopter companies , whereas the DTI was adamant the company should make up its own mind . |
| 4 | It does not follow that judges faced with such an issue must throw up their hands and send the parties from court with no decision at all . |
| 5 | There is little to see , and users must make up their own minds on whether it covers their needs , rather than relying on the opinions of others . |
| 6 | Rain could try and get some answers from Barbara Coleman when they held their whispered conversation before Chagall 's windows , but she must make up her own mind about Maurin 's character . |
| 7 | Layfield ( 1976 ) criticised this confusion and said that the centre must make up its mind whether it wanted to adopt a centralist or localist view . |
| 8 | In a prefatory motto for the book he quotes from Freud to the effect that ‘ perhaps we must make up our minds to the idea that altogether it is not possible for the claims of the sexual instincts to be reconciled with the demands of culture . ’ |
| 9 | I was silent , thinking that I must make up my mind what course of action to take . |
| 10 | ‘ As I 've said before directly to the Labour Party , ‘ You must make up your minds . |
| 11 | You must make up your own mind . |
| 12 | ‘ If you see me drinking too much , ’ she said to Beuno , ‘ you must tie up my throat like a cormorant , or I shall start speaking wildly . ’ |
| 13 | After this dance , Lalage must give up her predatory conquest . |
| 14 | French ministers must give up their seats to substitutes , who then have to wait a month before they may vote . |
| 15 | The so-called White Memorandum ( March 1942 ) proposed that in such districts the Churches ( in practice , the Church of England ) must give up their schools . |
| 16 | However , once they learn the conventional term for a specific meaning , they must give up their own coinage and begin instead to use the conventional term . |
| 17 | Many dictate that you must give up your smelly , messy , untrained child-eater ( their opinion , not ours ) before you may be considered lucky enough to be offered lodgings . |
| 18 | In order to claim that you have been constructively dismissed , you must give up your job in response to the breaking of your contract . |
| 19 | Perhaps the most important consequence of a limited partner 's role is that in return for his limited liability he must give up his normal right to participate in the management of the partnership . |
| 20 | In April Neville Chamberlain had told Davidson he must give up his post as party Chairman . |
| 21 | On 1 January 1559 , the ‘ Beggars ' Summons ’ was nailed to the doors of the Scottish friaries , demanding in the name of the ‘ Blind , Crooked , Bedridden , Widows , Orphans and all other poor , so visited by the hand of God as may not work ’ , that the friars should give up their patrimony by Whitsun . |
| 22 | If it is in awarding themselves points for put-downs of the public then they should give up their jobs , live on welfare , and be rude to their friends . |
| 23 | At these times , the scarcity of employment opportunities has led to the view that older people should give up their jobs in order that younger people can benefit from the experience of work . |
| 24 | BANKS should give up their High Street locations and move into the back alleys with the grubby little money lenders they increasingly resemble . |
| 25 | At that point — and discovering such identity of meaning may take some time — children should give up their form in favour of the conventional one for that meaning ( Clark , 1987 , 1988 ) . |
| 26 | Neither of you should give up your friends , but you do need to make time for each other . |
| 27 | The minister disagreed with Lord Carlisle 's recommendation that the Home Secretary should give up his veto over decisions by the Parole Board in cases involving ‘ the worst kind of offenders ’ . |
| 28 | It was n't fair that a king should give up his throne for her , and not for the weaver 's daughter . |
| 29 | Tack was left some money in his mother 's will and decided that he should give up his job and go in to business for himself . |
| 30 | Views were expressed : ‘ Not only do we need to experience real work , ’ went the argument , ‘ but we should give up our holiday times to do it ! ’ |